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Chapter 13 - Shift Varieties as a Typological Class?

A Consideration of South African Indian English

from III - Language Interfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2019

By
Raymond Hickey
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Raymond Hickey
Raymond Hickey
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Universität Duisburg–Essen
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Summary

Recent discussions around the genesis of varieties of English have posed the question of whether there are certain types which in principle form a typological class (e.g. creoles). Relatively little attention has been paid to shift varieties of English, which in terms of the sociolinguistics of language contact and development form a distinct group. When a group shifts to a language it is in contact with, features can be transferred into a new variety of that language which, if maintained by later generations, form a new, focused variety of the target language.

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language contactlanguage shifttypological classtransferindependent developmentsuniversals of second language acquisitionnon-prescriptive environments
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English in Multilingual South Africa
The Linguistics of Contact and Change
 , pp. 265 - 287
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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